PJS Articles from 1/30

[houstontxbrave]

Everyone - This is a HUGE game tonight. A win lifts the Braves out of the doldrums of Thursday night, where it feels like we have been FOREVER (It was a LONG 7 games when DR was hurt). A win tonight and BU can legitimately start talking about positioning itself for a top 4 seed. A loss tonight and we're still playing with the fire of the play-in round. We've done enough losing at home, it's time to re-establish some home court DOMINANCE!

This is a definite must win, as is Saturday and again on Wednesday. 4 reasons, we need to reestablish our home court, we need to sweep Evansville, we need to payback MSU and help them continue there Thursday slide and most importantly continue our positive momentum.

We have a swagger that I have not seen in our team all season. We know we have numerous weapons, know that we have Ruff back and can attack , but even without him our players have began to understand that they can be successful and win basketball games. Basketball is x's and o's but its also very mental. We had a very poor mental attitude to begin the conference season, now its done a 180 and by winning tonight saturday and next Wednesday our attitude will be off the charts.

But tonight is the first step. Got to get this one and make a statement early and often.

 

[SFP]

Scouter sim sim simmer down! If you can read through someones post you would see that I did metion that he should write about our deficiencies! I never asked for a rah rah guy! If you do not think the kids in the local area do not read the PJS you are mistaken. So as far as recruiting goes he can help out a bit. Kids want to be associated with winners. You never know what will be the tipping point.

Anyway for the rest of the BU fans were off my point, if you do not like his articles please do not put a link here, just ignore him.

 

[Beninator]

How is he being short-sighted? It's not his job be a BU cheerleader. If he sees something the team is doing wrong, he'll be critical of it. And KW's columns have about as much of an effect on recruiting as I do.

I am not asking KW to be a cheerleader. But why in the world does a columnist need to surround something as simple as a MVC Newcomer of the Week award with sarcastic rants about BU fans? Today's article was not responsible journalism. It was just another example of a "hit piece" written to agitate people who dared to disagree with KW in the past. If KW wanted to voice those opinions, then he should have done so in a separate part of the Sports section. In short, if KW cant stand the heat, then he needs to get out of the kitchen.

 

[tornado]

I suspect some of this relates to e mails that he gets that are negative, and he feels compelled to respond,
so what he said was just a little light-hearted comment so he wouldn't be accused of intentionally suppressing the news of Sam M.'s award.
I accept it was probably just an oversight and they did give him props on Wednesday.....so I consider case closed.

As for BU taking any action...that's ridiculous...they want KW at the games, and they want him to write about Bradley.
They know they can't control what he writes, so they do the best they can to be congenial, but sometimes he writes negative stuff anyway.

I have come to conclude it is genetic in everyone who writes for a newspaper, that you have to say something negative once in a while even if nothing negative exists, or else they will start lobbing accusations that you're drinking the BU-Koolaid............when that happens, then the writer would consider his career shot, as he'd be labeled biased.
So they go overboard being critical so as to maintain the air of
un-biased-ness!

Here we have no such rules....so everyone is free to be as honest as they want, even if HONESTY gives rise to accusations of being biased........

 

[real fan]

I was one of the most peeved persons after reading his article but the thing is over with and it is time to quit worrying about KW. and what he does or doesn"t do ; anyone that wishes to take it further needs only to call in at 4 to 6 pm on wmbd radio thurs. during his segment on the Markley and Luciano show and express your opinion; I personally would not waste my time.

 

[LG281]

I have come to conclude it is genetic in everyone who writes for a newspaper, that you have to say something negative once in a while even if nothing negative exists, or else they will start lobbing accusations that you're drinking the BU-Koolaid............when that happens, then the writer would consider his career shot, as he'd be labeled biased.
So they go overboard being critical so as to maintain the air of
un-biased-ness!

I expected a speedier response from Scouter. He is gonna be awfully miffed when he finds out its genetic...

 

[Scouter]

I expected a speedier response from Scouter. He is gonna be awfully miffed when he finds out its genetic...

I would've responded sooner, but I had to go to my biological journalism class so I could learn all about our genetic negativity!

8)

 

[BUBraves06]

I don't really care what KW writes, either way I read it if it's good or bad and will keep doing so. I've met and spoke with him numerous times and he seems like a nice enough guy, and hell even every once in a while, I agree with him. The bottom line is though that over the past two weeks or so there have been at least a couple of threads about KW's columns, so what he's doing is obviously working. Just by posting links to PJ Star strories here, more people are reading it and therefore being exsposed to KW ... gasp! It seems like he really manages to cause some debate around here, whether people are ripping him or defending him, but by creating that debate, he's doing his job, whether he's right or wrong is a different issue all together!

 

[Chico]

IMO Scouter you would make a good reporter for the JS, if you are not already. Even I agree with KW sometime, but not all the time.

 

[Scouter]

IMO Scouter you would make a good reporter for the JS, if you are not already. Even I agree with KW sometime, but not all the time.

I do not agree with KW all the time, but thanks for the kind thoughts. Maybe they'll offer me a job after graduation!

 

[tornado]

Hey if you do have experience as a journalist, then let's try a contest where we each predict the headline of the tomorrow's story on BU in Sunday's paper.
You know, like "Roundhouse Regrouping"...except it'll almost surely have to do with "Aces".

 

[Da Coach]

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

 

[Scouter]

Hey if you do have experience as a journalist, then let's try a contest where we each predict the headline of the tomorrow's story on BU in Sunday's paper.
You know, like "Roundhouse Regrouping"...except it'll almost surely have to do with "Aces".

I'll go with something along the lines of "BU aces another one."

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

Writing headlines is actually something we've hardly talked about (if ever) in any of my classes, but I don't think writing them is particularly difficult. Puns, rhymes and alliteration are most often used because they're usually catchy and appealing to the eye. Cheesy, yes, but they're more likely to appeal to someone than "BU beats Evansville, 77-65."

 

[New Guy]

Is the art of using puns taught in Journalism classes?
I have always wondered why puns are used so much?

My favorite of all time is when Nebraska baseball won the super regional over Rice to make the college world series. The winning pitcher had the nickname shrimp. The headline was "Shrimp fried Rice"